A Prospering Society
A Prospering Society

Author: John Hare

Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781902806853

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"This book seeks to explore the changing nature of English society through a case study of countryside and town in southern England during the period from c.1380 to c.1520. It explores the influence of landscape and population on the agriculture of Wiltshire, the regional patterns of arable and pastoral farming, and the growing contrast between the large-scale mixed farming of the chalklands and the family farms of the claylands. It examines the changing situation of the rural tenant population as it reacted to the greater opportunities available in the land-market. During this period, Wiltshire became one of the great cloth-producing counties of England (as reflected in its rising taxable wealth). Such economic expansion generated jobs both within the industry and beyond, stimulating the market for food, services and manufactured goods. Salisbury was one of the greatest cities in the kingdom, and below this was a hierarchy of interesting lesser towns. But such growth generated its own problems: more and more people became dependent on the cloth trade and particularly on exporting cloth; if exports fell, as during the mid-fifteenth-century crisis, they suffered. As scholars are increasingly aware, the later Middle Ages was a period of considerable change, and this study contributes to debates about the nature of both change and continuity at a national level. It will also be of value to local historians interested in one of the most important periods in Wiltshire's history."--BLACKWELL'S.

Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem
Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem

Author: Great Britain Court of Chancery

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-07-03

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9781333017132

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Excerpt from Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem: Returned Into the Court of Chancery in the Reign of Kind Edward III., A. D. 1327 1377 In the said moiety ther'e is one toft, worth rzd. Yearly; 140 acres of land, ofwhich 60 acres are worth yearly, price of the acre 3d., and 80 acres are worth 8d., price of the acre rd. There are 6 acres of meadow, worth yearly; one several pasture of marshland, worth 2s.; there is pasture for 300 sheep, worth izs. 6d. Yearly, viz. M. Per head. There are 20 acres of wood of no value, because they are laid waste. There are 8 free tenants, each of whom pays at the four principal terms 41s. 4d. Yearly, and at Michaelmas 3 of cummin [p], which are worth 3d. And there is one free tenant, who pays yearly at the Feasts of Christmas and the Nativity of St. John the Baptist 2d. There are 4 half virgatars', holding in villenage, who pay yearly at the four chief terms for all services And there are 3 cotta'rs, each of whom pays at the same terms 9s. 9d. Isabel, daughter of the said l'ehalas de Percy, is his next heir, and is 7 years old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.